Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent
do you mean the one with the little girl in israel, or is this some homegrown US horror?
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view profile on Bluesky Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent
do you mean the one with the little girl in israel, or is this some homegrown US horror?
Alexandra Petri (@petridishes.bsky.social) reposted
Valued users! We understand that over the past 250-odd years, you have come to rely on the services provided by the U.S. of A.: postal delivery, representative government, edible food, clean water, lifesaving vaccines, and no kings—ever, guaranteed. Well, 250 years of free is enough.
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent
yup. he's too gleeful about persecuting rather than protecting trans people and homeless people. We don't need any more punch-down presidents.
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social) reposted
It’s worth noting WHY Epstein survivors are speaking out: Because the Trump Administration is making corrupt deals with their predator and hiding evidence of his accomplice’s crimes.
Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) reposted
Why didn’t some of the Epstein survivors speak out earlier? “I thought someone was going to kill me,” one explained. As another asked, “Why did the government work so hard to protect Jeffrey Epstein and not victims like me?”
Jodi Jacobson (@jljacobson.bsky.social) reposted
Anyone who says: “well RFK has some good ideas,“ should be written off as crazy. Sure, there’s lots of people that have talked about reforming the food system and making sure kids get a more balanced diet, but they’re also not conspiracy theorists and liars. Do not promote the wrong people.
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent
He's 100% the one I'd vote for but I'm grateful for Newsom's shit-posting (not enough to vote for him)
Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted
Fox refuses to cover what the Epstein victims are saying publicly for the first time, but they are covering military jets flying over them during their press conference.
T. Greg Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) reposted
Trump will do literally anything but release the Epstein Files
Solomon (@solomonmissouri.bsky.social) reposted
In New to this but…
Sunny Moraine (@dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social) reposted
HOW MANY MORE TIMES DO WE NEED TO FUCKING TEST THIS SHIT
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent
Benjamin Moore's (3rd one down) seems most ominous: pale and diseased, like the times.
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent
Benjamin Moore = cinnamon slate. It sits next to another color that goes with it. Leather saddle which is more obvious.
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent
Pantone's color for 2025. At this point it's clear they're all in on the same shit-ship.
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social)
what is it with paint companies declaring the color of poop as the color of the year? are they telling us something? this is glidden's color for 2026 "warm mahogany"
Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
Dave Levitan (@davelevitan.bsky.social) reposted
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
Joey Cochran (@jtcochran.bsky.social) reposted
If you read only one thing today, read this. open.substack.com/pub/karenswa...
The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) reposted
ICE has resumed doing business with a controversial hacking company that had been dropped for running afoul of a Biden-era executive order against dealings with unethical spyware vendors.
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social)
After He’s Gone open.substack.com/pub/thinkbig...
Elizabeth N. Saunders (@profsaunders.bsky.social) reposted
Curtail? Congress and SCOTUS have willingly handed over power to the president.
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social)
gift article wapo.st/4fYo0z2
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social)
Judge Says Trump’s Use of Troops in L.A. Is Illegal www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/u...
Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson.bsky.social) reposted
Look at that beautiful blue sky! ⏰☠️ Wake Up Dead Man, the new Benoit Blanc mystery. Thanksgiving in theaters, 12/12 on Netflix. More to come very soon…
leon (@leyawn.bsky.social) reposted
i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social)
This one feels less like mockery
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent
or the times she cited scientific inventions created by her worm-hole riddled brain.
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social)
I missed the part when she was US Secretary of Health and Human Services
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent
well yeah, apparently you're no longer necessary
Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social) reposted
Unions built this city and keep it running. They’ve fought against power and greed to make the impossible possible. Now, they need an ally in City Hall. On Labor Day, the presidents of the Hotel Trades Council, 32BJ and SEIU 1199 make the case at @cityandstateny.bsky.social.
Ed Hirsch (@edhirsch.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
John Fredericks: "I love this video of Don Jr with numb gums" bsky.app/profile/deni...
Lizzie Kodpuak née Acid Lich (Gröbnerpilled era) (@acidlich.bsky.social) reposted
Periodic reminder I was tortured in childhood over autism and that’s what RFK Jr is trying to usher back in
🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power (@babewiththepower.bsky.social) reposted
Cry me a river. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent
You’re thinking of violins. I had two trombonists, a french horn player and a drummer. Next door neighbor had a single violinist. She suffered far more than I did.
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social)
Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent
Far something but not left
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent
Far left organized over this? Doubt it
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent
Cybertruck of the seas
Mark Sumner 🇺🇦 (@devilstower.bsky.social) reposted
A record number of deaths from rabies. In part because vaccination rates for dogs have plunged. Because stupidity. “… nearly 40% believed canine vaccines were unsafe and 37% believed that vaccines could lead their dogs to develop cognitive issues, such as autism.”
The Guardian (@theguardian.com) reposted
Ghislaine Maxwell hinted at Epstein’s ties to Trump officials – why wasn’t she pressed for names?
The Editorial Board (@editorialboard.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
10. Critics of the Democratic Party will point out that, well, ackshually, Harris did say she supported access to gender transition care for undocumented immigrants. But that was once, in 2019, during her first run, and it wasn’t a campaign pledge. She wasn’t running on it.
Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted
WE'RE ABOUT TO PUT A MEMECOIN OUT 😂
greengrace.bsky.social (@greengrace.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Hey, Florida! Someone should find out the daily cost of this operation and make an attractive, maybe 🌈 colored, sign giving daily updates on the cost of the FCP.(Florida Crosswalk Patrol) Take shifts, ensuring the sign is there all day, every day.
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social)
Tax dollars protecting a crosswalk from a colorful chalk tribute
Hyperlexic (@hyperlexic.bsky.social) reposted
They’re doing all this to prevent people from MEMORIALIZING A MASS SHOOTING
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social)
Source: CNN
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent
Yay!
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social)
Q: How many MAGA does it take to change a light bulb? A: None. Trump says its fixed and the MAGA all sit around in the dark and clap!
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent
real life patient/dr bonding
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social)
I had an appt with new Dr for the first time. We spent maybe 5 minutes talking about my health. In response to a question about my diet I said "I'm rage eating because of Trump" and we spent the rest of the appt (and maybe more) discussing the schmuck and what regular citizens can do to fight.
Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) reposted
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social)
Will the C.D.C. Survive? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/h...
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Welch: Am American president talks to other American citizens like that, and propagandists come on TV and normalize this behavior. And nothing about this is normal. Nothing
BETH BAE (@yolowinr.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
I knew that he was doing this as many of you did. He would up and down the market with his announcements up one day down the next buying in between selling in between. This is stock manipulation and is a crime. It is a felony. And yes a felony even for the president.
The New York Times (@nytimes.com) reposted
Breaking News: A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from carrying out fast-track deportations of people detained far from the southern border.
Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) reposted
“It’s just incredibly cruel.” Kristi Noem waives environmental laws to build Trump’s wall through a wildlife refuge.
Naotoshi Maeda (@naotoshimaeda.bsky.social) reposted
Trump is abusing the global economy like a personal stock market scheme. This manipulative prick is wrecking industries and pocketing power while Americans pay higher prices because of his idiotic tariffs. Of course, he never had that authority under IEEPA. He is the living embodiment of grift.
CNN (@cnn.com) reposted
Migrants sent by the US to the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba earlier this year faced “abusive and inhumane detention conditions” that seriously affected their physical and mental health and even led to some suicide attempts, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch.
Robert Loerzel (@robertloerzel.bsky.social) reposted
What a shame. "WGBH … has laid off the 13 people who worked on the history series 'American Experience' and announced that no new documentaries will be produced for the show until further notice." (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/a...
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social)
Where Your Medicines Are Made www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/h...
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Welch: Everybody's missing the point here. The point is, he's doing this on purpose. He's priming the public to get accustomed to having the military in the streets
Chantal James (@chantalalive.bsky.social) reposted
Are they trying to rewrite Dubya's legacy ON THIS DAY like his neglect of New Orleans was an oopsie? Kanye saying he didn't care about Black people was the last time he was right. Y'all gone whitewash all these fascists including Trump & give them storied places in the pantheon.
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent
Always and always
Nathan Newman- Remove Child Rapist Trump from White House (@nathansnewman.bsky.social) reposted
RFK Jr. ordered head of CDC to break the law. That's the story and Dems should demand immediate impeachment hearings www.rawstory.com/cdc-firing-i...
Denise Wheeler (@denisedwheeler.bsky.social) reposted
The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent
And how about when the flu mutates and infects farm workers. They and their families/towns/cities can experience the same “strengthening” die-off
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) (@hcrichardson.bsky.social) reposted
August 29, 2025
Matt Zoller Seitz (@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social) reposted
"The founders of (MORE) saw the mainstream American press as stagnant, conservative, and unwilling to examine themselves at a time when the country was convulsing with social movements and the public was losing confidence in institutions." The period was 1971-78. www.cjr.org/the_profile/...
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social)
Public Broadcast Cuts Hit Rural Areas, Revealing a Political Shift www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
Senator Ron Wyden (@wyden.senate.gov) reposted
Arresting firefighters putting their lives on the line to protect our communities doesn't make us safer. This evil stunt is putting families in harm's way just so Donald Trump can score a Fox News hit.
Senator Ron Wyden (@wyden.senate.gov) reposted
One of the firefighters arrested is an Oregonian. My office has been in touch with his lawyer who says he can't locate his client. My office is working to get more information on his whereabouts ASAP.
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social)
Ignore the messenger,sure, ok. But do NOT ignore this message
Peter Butler (@peter-butler.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
AP livestream www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Newsom: Perhaps the president could deploy the National Guard in every corner of Mississippi. Murder rate is out of control there. And the governor may want to make that phone call.
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social)
"If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a merry Christmas" --Dandy Don Meredith and many mid-western dads
Jeremy Faust, MD (@jeremyfaust.bsky.social) reposted
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent
IF ok fine yes IF
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent
Yea. And my post is “not doomed YET.” When he’s leading a pack in a couple of years you’ll be closer to correct.. …Except. Really truly doomed? When opposition candidates end up imprisoned poisoned or defenestrated.
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent
Not really. I think if it was 2027, maybe the sucks to be us point is real he’s at the top of my “won’t vote for that one” list. (Right next to Cheney) Unless the other choice is Trump.
T. Greg Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) reposted
I truly don't understand how these people got so fixated on tariffs as their preferred statecraft "We will punish Norway by punching ourselves in the testicles" Incoherent codswallop
Congresswoman Gwen Moore (@repgwenmoore.bsky.social) reposted
Working Americans pay higher tax rates than Donald Trump and his billionaire buddies — and it’s no accident. Republicans have rigged the system and made tax cuts for the rich permanent in their tax bill and they’re paying for it by cutting your health care. www.cbsnews.com/news/income-...
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent
horrifying
Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) reposted
People need to understand just how openly genocidal the rhetoric on the far right is getting towards transgender people. They're openly talking about eradicating us and forcefully mass institutionalizing all trans people. These are people with direct ties to the Trump administration.
Gary Longsine 📱 (@arbiteriapetus.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Russell Vought is a Christian Nationalist. A thread highlighting the work of journalists like @brucewilson.bsky.social @katherinestewart.bsky.social and @amandamarcotte.bsky.social who tried to warn us. bsky.app/profile/arbi...
Kate Tuttle (@katekilla.bsky.social) reposted
I haven't written this kind of personal essay in years, so it was interesting to revisit this one, originally published in 2018, that @noahmichelson.bsky.social asked me to update. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) reposted
🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD (@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social) reposted
Another excellent piece out by @drjudystone.bsky.social. Please read it and spread the word that RFK Jr. must go. Now.
sof' hum for the dreadlock vanguard (@upfromsumdirt.bsky.social) reposted
back when superman was like "fuck evil landlords; give me prison reform!"
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent
and good god, I wish to fuck they would do more for Mamdani!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent
they're not picking him as much as the media is.. . and the Dems are just joining up with anyone who can make a dent in Trump. ANYONE. Say what you like about Newsom (please, do) he's a showman.
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump sells Trump 2028 hats in his white house shop. He steamrolling the constitution every day. Not enough rich/powerful people are stepping up to WTF at him. I'll join the "Fuck the Schmucks" parade and work against Newsom and Cheney when Trump isn't on the road to dictatorship.
Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent
hey without schmucks like him we're really doomed. 1. it's not presidential election season yet. 2. if people -- gross people awful people wonderful people ex-MAGA -- don't work to eliminate trump, there won't be an election.